gran'py

plural gran'pies

1. alternativeAlternative form of grampy.

   His name was Tom, but he was called ‘Jingle’. Well, none of his sons never had the nickname—not to stick to ’em—till it come to my Gran’py; instead of calling him ‘Jingle’, it got to ‘Jinkey’; […]

   1952 October, William Wells, “Jinkey Wells (from a conversation recorded in October, 1952)”, in Journal of the English Folk Dance and Song Society, volume VIII, number 1, London: English Folk Dance and Song Society, published 1956, →ISSN, →OCLC, “William Wells 1868-1953: Morris Dancer, Fiddler and Fool” section, page 1

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   Becky looked at his lame leg, thinking how sad it was for him that he couldn’t dance in the sword dance as his father and grandfather and great-grandfather had danced it. / He saw her look and understood her thought and put his hand on her shoulder. “My Gran’py,” he went on, “will play the fiddle, seeing he’s too old to dance now.[…]”

   1960, Nancy Faulkner, chapter 7, in Mystery at Long Barrow House, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., →LCCN, →OCLC, page 88

   I can say what I've done till now – meeting with Claude, the banker; proposed pairing needs with volunteers, and Squirrel gave it a name, forming a granny/gran'py group for immediate help; must still talk with the corporate rep. Then, we need money, food-stuffs and jobs for which I have no idea how to conjure…

   2010 December 10, Rocsanne Shield, “The City-corporation”, in Save Magic City, Bloomington, Ind.: iUniverse, →ISBN